Salesforce

Senior Threat Assessment Engineer

Salesforce • $148K — $223K *
Seattle, WA 98115In-Person
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
1 month ago
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of experience in threat modeling and security architecture.
  • Strong research and analytical skills with data correlation abilities.
  • Proficient in analyzing logs from security tools like EDR and SIEM.
  • In-depth understanding of cloud and application security fundamentals.
  • Familiarity with common exploitation threats in SaaS and PaaS environments.
  • Experience with threat modeling frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK and Cyber Kill Chain.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Technical degree in a related field.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct threat modeling for infrastructure and application-level scenarios.
  • Create onboarding strategies for new M&As into Cyber Security Operations.
  • Utilize threat intelligence and incident response data for research.
  • Assess cloud security controls and architecture across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
  • Analyze security logs to identify coverage gaps or control bypasses.
  • Engage executive stakeholders to translate assessments into actionable recommendations.
  • Provide strategic threat insights to Security and leadership stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits supporting work-life balance.
  • Resources to help you find balance and be your best.
  • AI agents to enhance your productivity and impact.
  • Opportunities for personal and professional growth.
Full Job Description
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Job Category
Enterprise Technology & Infrastructure

Job Details

Overview of the Role:

As a Senior Threat Assessment Engineer on the Environmental Threat Assessment team, you will utilize the threat (and detection/response) perspective to lead independent assessments into new M&As, major product releases, incident uplifts, etc to identify and mitigate exploitable vectors. You will collaborate with peers across intelligence, detection, and response functions to drive uplifts and scale our capabilities through automation and "agentic" security investments. Your work will directly shape Salesforce's security posture by translating technical research into actionable requirements for Product & Enterprise Security partners and Product/Engineering stakeholders.

Responsibilities:
  • Conducting threat modeling for infrastructure and application-level threat scenarios, including security architecture and interactions, and new products/features from a realized threat and "outside-in" perspective.
  • Create onboarding strategy of all new M&As into Cyber Security Operations across assessments, log prioritization and onboarding, and detection and security tool validation.
  • Utilizing threat intelligence, incident response data, detection and logging metrics, and visibility from proprietary security tooling to conduct and correlate research.
  • Assessing cloud security controls and cloud architecture implementations across current businesses and future business units, primarily across AWS, GCP, and Azure substrates.
  • Analyzing logs from endpoint, network, and other security tooling to identify potential gaps in coverage or hunting for bypassing of existing controls.
  • Engaging executive stakeholders across the company to translate assessments into actionable recommendations that shape the business and our products.
  • Providing strategic and tactical applied threat insights to Security and leadership stakeholders by contextualizing intelligence in the Salesforce context with our Threat Intelligence team.


Required Qualifications:

  • 6+ years of experience in threat modeling and security architecture.
  • Strong research and analytical skills with the ability to correlate data from various sources.
  • Proficiency in analyzing logs and events from various security tools like EDR, CSPM, SIEM, etc.
  • In-depth understanding of cloud security and application security fundamentals and best practices (such as OWASP Top 10).
  • Strong understanding of common exploitation and abuse threats observed across for SaaS and PaaS providers.
  • Experience using threat modeling and analysis frameworks such as Cyber Kill Chain, Diamond Model, MITRE ATT&CK, and STRIDE.
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.
  • A related technical degree required.


Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience in Product or Enterprise Security design reviews and security assurance.
  • Experience automating processes and/or using AI tooling to automate workflows and data analysis.


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Industry
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